A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4 |
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This blood , like sacrificing Abel's , cries What sacrilege hath such a saint disgrac'd ? To me for justice . Shakspeare . Sidney . I sacrifce to the Lord all that openeth the Then ' gm a cursed hand the quiet womb matrix , being males ...
This blood , like sacrificing Abel's , cries What sacrilege hath such a saint disgrac'd ? To me for justice . Shakspeare . Sidney . I sacrifce to the Lord all that openeth the Then ' gm a cursed hand the quiet womb matrix , being males ...
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Fr. ] The ensign of royalty born in the hand . 3. A representation of the aspects of the Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right , celestial bodies ; any lineal or mathemaNor hold the sceptre in his childish fist .
Fr. ] The ensign of royalty born in the hand . 3. A representation of the aspects of the Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right , celestial bodies ; any lineal or mathemaNor hold the sceptre in his childish fist .
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To gather by great efforts , or penurious hands . or trifling diligence . SCRA'MBLER . n . s . [ from scramble . ] Let the government be ruined by his avarice , 1. One that scrambles . if , by avarice , he can scrape together so much as ...
To gather by great efforts , or penurious hands . or trifling diligence . SCRA'MBLER . n . s . [ from scramble . ] Let the government be ruined by his avarice , 1. One that scrambles . if , by avarice , he can scrape together so much as ...
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She began to be much seasick , extremity of Solyman shewed him his own letters , asking weather continuing . Sbakspeare . him if he kuew not that hand , and if he knew Barbarossa was not able to come on shore , for not that seal ?
She began to be much seasick , extremity of Solyman shewed him his own letters , asking weather continuing . Sbakspeare . him if he kuew not that hand , and if he knew Barbarossa was not able to come on shore , for not that seal ?
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Swift parate finer from grosser matter ; to SE'COND - HAND . n . s . Possession received make the separation of substances in from the first possessor . the body . SE'COND - HAND is sometimes used adjecBirds are better meat than beasts ...
Swift parate finer from grosser matter ; to SE'COND - HAND . n . s . Possession received make the separation of substances in from the first possessor . the body . SE'COND - HAND is sometimes used adjecBirds are better meat than beasts ...
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Page 39 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page 67 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung : as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 99 - Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 109 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 82 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 30 - And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream. With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.
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| Title | A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4 A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 7, 2006 |
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